{"id":1272,"date":"2017-05-09T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2017-05-09T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T15:20:01","slug":"may-meeting-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"May Meeting – 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minas Astronomy Group \u2013\u2013 May Meeting
\nSaturday, May 13, 7 p.m.<\/strong>
\n Avonport, 475 Bluff Road<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Randall Rosenfeld<\/p>\n

Topic:<\/strong> Truth at the Eyepiece<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong>
\nTruth at the Eyepiece – assimilating the past to the present, and is
\nthere a future for astrosketching? I will examine:
\ni) \u00a0approaches to accurate graphic representation of what is seen at
\nthe eyepiece in different periods (including technique and intended
\nuse), from before to after the invention of photography;
\nii) \u00a0how we look at what were once thought to be accurate
\nrepresentations of astronomical phenomena;
\niii) \u00a0extrinsic factors which can colour perceptions, and account for
\nsome of the disjunctions we experience when comparing “accurate”
\nrepresentations from various epochs;
\niv) \u00a0and concluding with possible lessons about how we observe now.
\nBesides its intrinsic interest, it would allow me to refer to some of
\nRoy’s previous work!<\/p>\n

Our speaker:<\/strong>
\nR.A. Rosenfeld, from Toronto, is the Archivist of the Royal
\nAstronomical Society of Canada, a position he has held since its
\ncreation in 2008. He was trained at the University of Toronto and the
\nPontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies as a palaeographer and
\ncodicologist, and researched and published on the tools and
\ntechnologies of communication ca. 500-1500, as well as on historical
\nperformance practice (musicology) ca. 1100-1600.
\nSince 2008 he has published over fifty articles on various
\nastronomical artifacts (with a particular interest in the graphic
\nrecords of observations and how they were made) in a variety of
\njournals. He is a contributor to the second edition of Springer\u2019s
\nBiographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2014). In 2012, he was the
\nrecipient of the RASC\u2019s Simon Newcomb Award, and the RASC\u2019s
\nPresident\u2019s Award. He is one of the recipients of the American
\nAstronomical Society’s Historical Astronomy Division’s 2017 Donald E.
\nOsterbrock Book Prize. He was elected to the Canadian Astronomical
\nSociety\/Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Canadienne d’Astronomie (CASCA), and the
\nInternational Astronomical Union named Asteroid 283990
\nRandallrosenfeld (2004 SG2) in his honour. He has twice placed second
\nin the Annual Griffith Observer Writing Contest (2008 & 2013). He was
\nthe 2016 Peter Sim Memorial Lecturer (Calgary Centre RASC). He is
\nalso a member of several professional early-music ensembles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minas Astronomy Group \u2013\u2013 May Meeting Saturday, May 13, 7 p.m. Avonport, 475 Bluff Road Speaker: Randall Rosenfeld Topic: Truth at the Eyepiece Summary: Truth at the Eyepiece – assimilating the past to the present, and is there a future for astrosketching? I will examine: i) \u00a0approaches to accurate graphic representation of what is seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-talk","category-activities-in-astronomy-related-to-mag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}